Scared to Update to 18.4.1 - Should I do this or Wait?

[iphonefreak450]

Should I wait for the 18.5 to be relased by skipping the 18.4.1 update?
As I read below, this update may brick iPhones at the point where it can be useless...

Updating to iOS 18.4.1 Could Brick Your iPhone

The chance is small, but it's apparently there.

www.makeuseof.com

 

[bransoj]

If it was a common occurrence then this forum would be littered with complaints. I've updated with no issues.

 

[Reverend Benny]

Should I wait for the 18.5 to be relased by skipping the 18.4.1 update?
As I read below, this update may brick iPhones at the point where it can be useless...

Updating to iOS 18.4.1 Could Brick Your iPhone

The chance is small, but it's apparently there.

www.makeuseof.com

As always, make sure that the nightly backup is done, and if you are worried, make an extra before updating.
Back in the days I generally closed all apps and did a restart of the phone just to make sure its working fine before updating. And keep in the charger, that might improve download performance and prepp of the update.

Not sure what device you have of version you are on today, but 18.4.1 brought a significant boost in battery performance for me compared to 18.4. It wasn't bad before but they must have done some magic for the HW on the devices I am using (13 pro and 14).

 

[aihpcfl]

Should I wait for the 18.5 to be relased by skipping the 18.4.1 update?
As I read below, this update may brick iPhones at the point where it can be useless...

Updating to iOS 18.4.1 Could Brick Your iPhone

The chance is small, but it's apparently there.

www.makeuseof.com

"The chance is small . . . " Isn't that always the case?

 

[HouseLannister]

Just FUD. The linked Reddit post is about a phone that already had problems before the update and doesn’t use the term “bricked” correctly.

 

[ghostface147]

What a crap article. Some reports say this update suck, but there are serious vulnerabilities, so do it anyways. One comment said he found half a million are having this problem. Where did you count this? FUD FUD FUD.

 

[avz]

Looks like I will keep my iPhone SE(2020) on iOS 17.3 for a while longer. It is possible that "for a while" will end up actually being closer to "for ages".

 

[iphonefreak450]

Updated it and seems to be fine. Thanks for the responses.

However, I give them a little bit of credit on the article for their fear mongering tactics It sure had me going...

 

[platinumaqua]

If you're already on 18.x, no reason to not update to the latest 18.x.x release since it can only get better from there until iOS 19